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University of Southern California
DAILY® TROJAN
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1967
NO. 56
Arts fest to offer big variety
A sculptor working with railroad tics, a jazz festival, strolling minstrels. and poetry reading in Alumni Park will eome to USC the week of Feb. 23 as part of the second Festival of the Arts.
A student committee headed by co-ehairmen Ronald Egenes and Roe Anne White have been working since September, planning and organizing the Festival, with the assistance of Dr. Dean Flowers, assistant professor of English, as their faculty advisor.
Robert Katz, a freshman in the second school of Fine Arts, won the poster contest the committee sponsored in November. His poster of blnck. green and blue on white will be used on the festival's publicity pamnhlets and posters.
The committee's next job is finding financial support and university recognition for their project. They have submitted a budget to the ASSC Fee Allocation Board and hope to get their financial support. The festival also received some funds from various departmental budgets.
Egenes and Miss White and their group have already made a long list of activities for the week-long festival and they are “constantly adding things.” Egenes said.
“We are trying to get things that usually take place indoors out in the onen. We want them to be dramatized openly so that they are not only available to the USC student body, but unavoidable for them." Dr. Flowers said.
“The Festival of the Arts should be more than a presentation of notorious artists. We seek to encourage student praticipation and display of student talent,” he added.
However, the festival will_ be a blend of student and professional art in the areas of cinema, fine arts, music, literature, and drama.
Student films, a panel discussion by film critics and writers and a famous French director. Jean Luc Godard, will be part of the cinema area of the festival.
Manhattan Beach sculptor Jack Horton will build a torge construction out of railroad ties during the week and Professor of Fine Arts Edgar Ewing will organize a student painting exhibit. Other fine arts contributions will include a pottery sale of student and faculty works.
Strolling ministrels. a Baroque Ensemble, folk singers and guitarists will perform outside in various locations during the week. A professional jazz festival, a dance, USC Symphony Orchestra and harpsicord duo performances will also add to the music program of the festival.
Ralph Ellison, author of “Invisible Man.” and a series of poetry readings in Alumni Park are the literature contributions to the festival. Poets-in-the-park include Thom Gunn, UCLA's Jascha Kessler, and a group of four UC Irvine poets called the Arab-Israeli Axis.
“So far no events have been scheduled by the drama department, although they have been invited to contribute.” Dr. Flower said.
However, the committee is planning to invite the San Francisco Mime Troup, a group which acts without words, and the Watts Tower Theater Workshop, which appeared last year.
“Plans are tentative and incomplete. We welcome any organizations or suggestions which will help make the 1968 Festival of Arts a successful event.” Egenes said.
Other committee members are Vici Newcomer. Ken Constable, Brian Heimerl, and Lorraine Osuna.
Campus life dull? Wait til! tomorrow
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POSTER ADVERTISES UPCOMING FESTIVAL OF ARTS Robert Katz's artistry mirrors variety of event.
FIRST OF ITS KIND
Unusual project set at Manual Arts High
The pledge class of Alpha Phi Omega, campus service fraternity, has initiated a project at nearby Manual Arts High School that may be the first of its kind in California.
The A Phi O pledges will go to Manual Arts this Thursday with Bill Prczant's Student-to-Student Counseling Service, a group of students who earlier this semester began working with top Manual Arts students on a weekly basis.
The pledges will meet with the counseling students only once, however—not to tutor with them, but to get names of students they recommend as having great potential but so far little interest in a college career.
“For most students in the inner city,” A Phi O President Larry Fowler said, “the only goal is to get out of high school and buy a car.
“We feel that if they can be exposed to the exciting atmosphere of a major university, through such methods as visits to major classes, participation in rallies and attendance at the Great Issues Forum, these kids could be sparked into an interest in continuing their education.”
The project would have two phases.
DT BOWL SPECIAL OUT TOMORROW
The Indiana legend of 1967— how it was born and how it grew. Co-Sports Editor Lance Spiegel analyzes the miracle of Bloomington in the Daily Trojan Souvenir Rose Bowl edition to go on sale tomorrow for 10 cents.
A full-page color picture on the front page featuring O. J. Simpson will highlight the souvenir edition.
In the first step, a USC student whose interest matches that of a Manual Arts student, would introduce the high schooler to life at the university.
In the second step, the USC student would tutor him with his studies and spur him towards better achievement in the classroom.
Although the program will be initially operated only by the pledge class, the fraternity plans to op«n it to the actives next semester, Fowler said.
By JOHN FURTAK
For those students who complain that life at USC is dull and that there aren't enough campus activities—tomorrow is your day.
The issuing of materials for early registration will kick off Wednesday's activities that also include a Rose Bowl pep rally, the opening of the new Grill, the presentation of Trolios and the sale of the Daily Trojan's special 32-page Rose Bowl Souvenir Edition.
Oh, yes. The administration reminds all students that classes will be held as usual.
The Registrar’s Office will begin issuing materials for spring semester registration to students whose last names begin with the letters S-Z from 9 a.m. until noon while those in the A-D bracket can pick up their packets from 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday.
The same process will be repeated Thursday for E-H in the morning and I-M in the afternoon. Students in the N-R segment can obtain their materials Friday morning.
All students must consult with an adviser, complete all the registration material, obtain any necessary “H” cards and return the packet to the Registrar's Office by Jan. 5 in order to register early.
Early registration is open only to students enrolled in the fall semester. Foreign students are required to bring their passports to the Foreign Students Office before they can register early.
The schedule of classes for the spring semester will also be available tomorrow at the Information Center.
Tomorrow afternoon at 2:30, a Rose Bowl pep rally featuring the nation’s No. 1 football team and its coaches along with many movie and television celebrities will be held at the entrance to the new Student Union complex on Childs Way.
Slated to be on hand for the gala event are television personalities
Danny Thomas and Jack Linkletter, television actrcsses Patricia Blair from the Daniel Boone series and Patricia Priest from The Munsters, motion picture actress Susan Oliver and Mrs. Miller, the singing sensation of the 1966 USC-Notre Dame football halftime show.
Following the rally. Dr. Norman Topping will take part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the Grill where free catawba juice, an imitation champagne, will be served along with finger sandwiches. Music will be provided by the Derry O'Leary Trio.
Aunt Dinah’s Quilting Party will take over the musical entertainment at 6:30 p.m.
Trolios, the all-student satirical program will be staged at 7:30 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
Tickets priced at SI are now on sale in front of Tommy Trojan and
will be sold at the door the night of the performance.
The two-hour program will feature humorous skits, running gags and a few large productions that will ccmmenl on love and the war in Vietnam.
Trolios is being produced by Bill Mauk and the 17-member cast is directed by Rob Shipp. Skip Kennon is the musical director.
After Trolios. it's back to the Grill for dancing and free refreshments until 11:45 p.m. with music provided by The Travel Agency.
The Grill will offer free coffee and doughnuts to all students Thursday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Also on Wednesday, the Daily Trojan’s special Rose Bowl Souvenir Edition featuring extensive coverage of pre-game activities and USC’s national championship football season will go on sale for 10 cents.
Christmas ceremony set for Bovard tonight
The ninth annual Christmas Convocation will be presented tonight at 8:30 in Bovard Auditorium.
No tickets will be issued to the free convocation. Seats will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
The program will be almost entirely a musical affair, with the exception of a prayer and short message by Dr. John Cantelon, university chaplain.
The Concert Choir, conducted by James Vail, is scheduled to open the program. Music will feature the works of Hassler. Stoltzer. Morley. Gibbons, Distler and Bartok. Also one Polish and two English carols will be sung.
Dr. Cantelon will follow the Concert Choir with a prayer and reading from the scripture.
Next, William Dehning will conduct the Trojan Chorale in seven numbers. including “The Christmas Song.” originally arranged by Roy Ringwald.
After the Chorale has finished their numbers. Dr. Cantelon will offer his Christmas message.
The Chamber Singers, conducted
Greek pledges grab food, give to needy
HUAC opponent will to TYDs Friday at noon
speak
Frank Wilkinson, executive director of the National Committee to Abolish HUAC (House on UnAmer-ican Activities Committee), will speak to the Trojan Young Democrats Friday at noon in 156 Von KleinSmid Center.
Wilkinson will discuss recently proposed HUAC legislation, which he believes could qualify such organizations as the Parents-Teachers Association, the Los Angeles Police Department, Congress on Racial Equality and the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee as Communist front groups.
Wilkinson has been opposing
HUAC since 1952, when he was sub-poenead to appear before the California UnAmerican Activities Committee and HUAC. He was the assistant executive director of the Los Angeles City Housing Authority at that time.
Wilkinson and other City Housing Authority officials were discharged as a result of the hearings. Since then, he has been defending persons subpoenaed by HUAC and its associated committees.
The TYDs will also vote on whether or not they will support Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D.-Minn.) in his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968.
By MARK VASCHE
The scene was downtown’s notorious Pershing Square. Some of the park’s nighttime inhabitants stood staring at the piles of food on the ground. Others stared at the newsmen on hand to record the event. And still others gawked at the more than 100 college students who had brought the food.
The event was the USC Inter-Fraternity Council - sponsored Pledge Class Walkout—an event designed to help the city’s underpriviledged.
On hand yesterday to accept the donations was Paul Martin, a local VISTA representative. He mingled with the students and thanked them for the food.
The unprepared food donated by the students, who represent most of the 28 fraternities on campus, is expected to provide Christmas dinner for almost 1,000 persons who live in the vicinity of USC.
The donations, which consisted of almost every imaginable type of food from french fried onion rings to green beans, will be stored by VISTA until Christmas, when it will be prepared and distributed to families.
The purpose of the Pledge Walkout. as described by Norm Barker, advisor to the Inter-Fraternity Pledge Council, is to develop an inter-fraternity spirit among the pledge classes.
Tim Huntley, vice-president of the IFC. said of the food donations: “This caper is a good opportunity to test the ingenuity of the pledges against the active chapters. Beyond
this, it involves many students in a constructive community-oriented project. It is a tribute to Greek involvement in university-community affairs.”
Huntley said this year's walkout was modeled after one held in 1965.
“In 1965 we drew national publicity due to the fact that the donation drive was held shortly after the summer Watts riots,” he said.
One of the students involved in the walk out was asked by newsmen if the event was another of the college demonstrations.
“No,” he replied. “We aren’t trying to demonstrate against anything.
All we are trying to do is help solve a problem.”
“The actions of students at some universities have given a bad name to all college students.” he said. “What we are trying to do is show the city and nation that college students want to help solve the problems.”
The students expressed hope that projects like the Pledge Class Walkout would start a trend at other universities.
“We believe there are different ways of attacking a problem, and perhaps this is one of them,” a student said.
DR. GLEN LUKENS, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF CERAMICS, DIES
Dr. Glen Lukens, 79, emeritus professor of ceramics and internationally renown potter, died Sunday morning in a local hospital. Death was attributed to heart failure.
Dr. Lukens served as a professor of ceramics and head of that section from 1933 to 1952. In 1945, on the request of the national government, he went to Haiti to teach rural populations how to fashion cooking utensils from clay.
He was recognized as the developer of California desert glass and
is also remembered as having revived the Egyptian process of making imitation turquois gems.
Dr Lukens’ work has been displayed across the United States. He was accorded many honors throughout his career, including the Lord and Taylor American Design Award, the National Robi-neau Ceramic Award and the Charles Fergus Binns Award. In 1940 he was awarded an honorary doctor’s degree from Oregon State University.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
by Charles Hirt, will end the program with a variety of Christmas carols from foreign lands.
The Special Events Office decided on the musical format for the Convocation in an attempt to continue presenting programs different from those of the past.
Past programs included such things as Christmas plays by the Drama Department and special readings.
This year’s Christmas Convocation is the first to be shown one night only. Previous Convocations had been presented two nights.
Med School receives gift of $487,200
A gift of $487,200 from the Louis B. Mayer Foundation to construct and equip the Louis B. Mayer Medical Teaching Center for the School of Medicine has been announced by Daniel Mayer Selznick, vice president of the foundation.
The center, which will have a 500-seat auditorium and 20 special teaching rooms, will be a part of the
S2.375.000 complex for medical education on USC's 12-acre medical campus adjacent to Los Angeles County General Hospital.
Dr. Roger Egeberg. dean of the School of Medicine, explained that the Mayer Center will be used for both undergraduate and graduate instruction, and for research and evaluation of medical school curricula and teaching methods.
Equipment for the center will include the latest innovations in programmed instruction and audio-visual communication.
Dr. Egeberg said that the auditorium. for example, would have stethoscopes so that the students could listen to heart sounds of a patient beinsr examined on the stage.
He reported that another feature of the center would be a closed-cir-cuit television system between the center and the County Hospital.
Selznick. grandson of Louis Mayer. the late film pioneer, said of the center: “How thrilled he (Louis Mav-er) would have been to see the wor’ds of medicine and the visual arts coming together for the betterment of man.
“Nothing would have pleased my grandfather more than to see film, television, and audio-visual aids being used to implement the training of the doctor of the future.”
Construction plans for the Mayer Teaching Center call for sliding classroom walls so that teaching areas can be restricted or enlarged to accommodate from 20 to 1(X) students or other group meetings.
Classrooms will also have front-surfaced mirrors enabling faculty in adjoining rooms to evaluate other instructors and their teaching methods.
The USC School of Medicine's Division of Research in Medical Education was established three years ago.
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University of Southern California
DAILY® TROJAN
VOL. LIX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1967
NO. 56
Arts fest to offer big variety
A sculptor working with railroad tics, a jazz festival, strolling minstrels. and poetry reading in Alumni Park will eome to USC the week of Feb. 23 as part of the second Festival of the Arts.
A student committee headed by co-ehairmen Ronald Egenes and Roe Anne White have been working since September, planning and organizing the Festival, with the assistance of Dr. Dean Flowers, assistant professor of English, as their faculty advisor.
Robert Katz, a freshman in the second school of Fine Arts, won the poster contest the committee sponsored in November. His poster of blnck. green and blue on white will be used on the festival's publicity pamnhlets and posters.
The committee's next job is finding financial support and university recognition for their project. They have submitted a budget to the ASSC Fee Allocation Board and hope to get their financial support. The festival also received some funds from various departmental budgets.
Egenes and Miss White and their group have already made a long list of activities for the week-long festival and they are “constantly adding things.” Egenes said.
“We are trying to get things that usually take place indoors out in the onen. We want them to be dramatized openly so that they are not only available to the USC student body, but unavoidable for them." Dr. Flowers said.
“The Festival of the Arts should be more than a presentation of notorious artists. We seek to encourage student praticipation and display of student talent,” he added.
However, the festival will_ be a blend of student and professional art in the areas of cinema, fine arts, music, literature, and drama.
Student films, a panel discussion by film critics and writers and a famous French director. Jean Luc Godard, will be part of the cinema area of the festival.
Manhattan Beach sculptor Jack Horton will build a torge construction out of railroad ties during the week and Professor of Fine Arts Edgar Ewing will organize a student painting exhibit. Other fine arts contributions will include a pottery sale of student and faculty works.
Strolling ministrels. a Baroque Ensemble, folk singers and guitarists will perform outside in various locations during the week. A professional jazz festival, a dance, USC Symphony Orchestra and harpsicord duo performances will also add to the music program of the festival.
Ralph Ellison, author of “Invisible Man.” and a series of poetry readings in Alumni Park are the literature contributions to the festival. Poets-in-the-park include Thom Gunn, UCLA's Jascha Kessler, and a group of four UC Irvine poets called the Arab-Israeli Axis.
“So far no events have been scheduled by the drama department, although they have been invited to contribute.” Dr. Flower said.
However, the committee is planning to invite the San Francisco Mime Troup, a group which acts without words, and the Watts Tower Theater Workshop, which appeared last year.
“Plans are tentative and incomplete. We welcome any organizations or suggestions which will help make the 1968 Festival of Arts a successful event.” Egenes said.
Other committee members are Vici Newcomer. Ken Constable, Brian Heimerl, and Lorraine Osuna.
Campus life dull? Wait til! tomorrow
.....-----..........
POSTER ADVERTISES UPCOMING FESTIVAL OF ARTS Robert Katz's artistry mirrors variety of event.
FIRST OF ITS KIND
Unusual project set at Manual Arts High
The pledge class of Alpha Phi Omega, campus service fraternity, has initiated a project at nearby Manual Arts High School that may be the first of its kind in California.
The A Phi O pledges will go to Manual Arts this Thursday with Bill Prczant's Student-to-Student Counseling Service, a group of students who earlier this semester began working with top Manual Arts students on a weekly basis.
The pledges will meet with the counseling students only once, however—not to tutor with them, but to get names of students they recommend as having great potential but so far little interest in a college career.
“For most students in the inner city,” A Phi O President Larry Fowler said, “the only goal is to get out of high school and buy a car.
“We feel that if they can be exposed to the exciting atmosphere of a major university, through such methods as visits to major classes, participation in rallies and attendance at the Great Issues Forum, these kids could be sparked into an interest in continuing their education.”
The project would have two phases.
DT BOWL SPECIAL OUT TOMORROW
The Indiana legend of 1967— how it was born and how it grew. Co-Sports Editor Lance Spiegel analyzes the miracle of Bloomington in the Daily Trojan Souvenir Rose Bowl edition to go on sale tomorrow for 10 cents.
A full-page color picture on the front page featuring O. J. Simpson will highlight the souvenir edition.
In the first step, a USC student whose interest matches that of a Manual Arts student, would introduce the high schooler to life at the university.
In the second step, the USC student would tutor him with his studies and spur him towards better achievement in the classroom.
Although the program will be initially operated only by the pledge class, the fraternity plans to op«n it to the actives next semester, Fowler said.
By JOHN FURTAK
For those students who complain that life at USC is dull and that there aren't enough campus activities—tomorrow is your day.
The issuing of materials for early registration will kick off Wednesday's activities that also include a Rose Bowl pep rally, the opening of the new Grill, the presentation of Trolios and the sale of the Daily Trojan's special 32-page Rose Bowl Souvenir Edition.
Oh, yes. The administration reminds all students that classes will be held as usual.
The Registrar’s Office will begin issuing materials for spring semester registration to students whose last names begin with the letters S-Z from 9 a.m. until noon while those in the A-D bracket can pick up their packets from 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesday.
The same process will be repeated Thursday for E-H in the morning and I-M in the afternoon. Students in the N-R segment can obtain their materials Friday morning.
All students must consult with an adviser, complete all the registration material, obtain any necessary “H” cards and return the packet to the Registrar's Office by Jan. 5 in order to register early.
Early registration is open only to students enrolled in the fall semester. Foreign students are required to bring their passports to the Foreign Students Office before they can register early.
The schedule of classes for the spring semester will also be available tomorrow at the Information Center.
Tomorrow afternoon at 2:30, a Rose Bowl pep rally featuring the nation’s No. 1 football team and its coaches along with many movie and television celebrities will be held at the entrance to the new Student Union complex on Childs Way.
Slated to be on hand for the gala event are television personalities
Danny Thomas and Jack Linkletter, television actrcsses Patricia Blair from the Daniel Boone series and Patricia Priest from The Munsters, motion picture actress Susan Oliver and Mrs. Miller, the singing sensation of the 1966 USC-Notre Dame football halftime show.
Following the rally. Dr. Norman Topping will take part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony to open the Grill where free catawba juice, an imitation champagne, will be served along with finger sandwiches. Music will be provided by the Derry O'Leary Trio.
Aunt Dinah’s Quilting Party will take over the musical entertainment at 6:30 p.m.
Trolios, the all-student satirical program will be staged at 7:30 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
Tickets priced at SI are now on sale in front of Tommy Trojan and
will be sold at the door the night of the performance.
The two-hour program will feature humorous skits, running gags and a few large productions that will ccmmenl on love and the war in Vietnam.
Trolios is being produced by Bill Mauk and the 17-member cast is directed by Rob Shipp. Skip Kennon is the musical director.
After Trolios. it's back to the Grill for dancing and free refreshments until 11:45 p.m. with music provided by The Travel Agency.
The Grill will offer free coffee and doughnuts to all students Thursday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Also on Wednesday, the Daily Trojan’s special Rose Bowl Souvenir Edition featuring extensive coverage of pre-game activities and USC’s national championship football season will go on sale for 10 cents.
Christmas ceremony set for Bovard tonight
The ninth annual Christmas Convocation will be presented tonight at 8:30 in Bovard Auditorium.
No tickets will be issued to the free convocation. Seats will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
The program will be almost entirely a musical affair, with the exception of a prayer and short message by Dr. John Cantelon, university chaplain.
The Concert Choir, conducted by James Vail, is scheduled to open the program. Music will feature the works of Hassler. Stoltzer. Morley. Gibbons, Distler and Bartok. Also one Polish and two English carols will be sung.
Dr. Cantelon will follow the Concert Choir with a prayer and reading from the scripture.
Next, William Dehning will conduct the Trojan Chorale in seven numbers. including “The Christmas Song.” originally arranged by Roy Ringwald.
After the Chorale has finished their numbers. Dr. Cantelon will offer his Christmas message.
The Chamber Singers, conducted
Greek pledges grab food, give to needy
HUAC opponent will to TYDs Friday at noon
speak
Frank Wilkinson, executive director of the National Committee to Abolish HUAC (House on UnAmer-ican Activities Committee), will speak to the Trojan Young Democrats Friday at noon in 156 Von KleinSmid Center.
Wilkinson will discuss recently proposed HUAC legislation, which he believes could qualify such organizations as the Parents-Teachers Association, the Los Angeles Police Department, Congress on Racial Equality and the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee as Communist front groups.
Wilkinson has been opposing
HUAC since 1952, when he was sub-poenead to appear before the California UnAmerican Activities Committee and HUAC. He was the assistant executive director of the Los Angeles City Housing Authority at that time.
Wilkinson and other City Housing Authority officials were discharged as a result of the hearings. Since then, he has been defending persons subpoenaed by HUAC and its associated committees.
The TYDs will also vote on whether or not they will support Sen. Eugene McCarthy (D.-Minn.) in his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1968.
By MARK VASCHE
The scene was downtown’s notorious Pershing Square. Some of the park’s nighttime inhabitants stood staring at the piles of food on the ground. Others stared at the newsmen on hand to record the event. And still others gawked at the more than 100 college students who had brought the food.
The event was the USC Inter-Fraternity Council - sponsored Pledge Class Walkout—an event designed to help the city’s underpriviledged.
On hand yesterday to accept the donations was Paul Martin, a local VISTA representative. He mingled with the students and thanked them for the food.
The unprepared food donated by the students, who represent most of the 28 fraternities on campus, is expected to provide Christmas dinner for almost 1,000 persons who live in the vicinity of USC.
The donations, which consisted of almost every imaginable type of food from french fried onion rings to green beans, will be stored by VISTA until Christmas, when it will be prepared and distributed to families.
The purpose of the Pledge Walkout. as described by Norm Barker, advisor to the Inter-Fraternity Pledge Council, is to develop an inter-fraternity spirit among the pledge classes.
Tim Huntley, vice-president of the IFC. said of the food donations: “This caper is a good opportunity to test the ingenuity of the pledges against the active chapters. Beyond
this, it involves many students in a constructive community-oriented project. It is a tribute to Greek involvement in university-community affairs.”
Huntley said this year's walkout was modeled after one held in 1965.
“In 1965 we drew national publicity due to the fact that the donation drive was held shortly after the summer Watts riots,” he said.
One of the students involved in the walk out was asked by newsmen if the event was another of the college demonstrations.
“No,” he replied. “We aren’t trying to demonstrate against anything.
All we are trying to do is help solve a problem.”
“The actions of students at some universities have given a bad name to all college students.” he said. “What we are trying to do is show the city and nation that college students want to help solve the problems.”
The students expressed hope that projects like the Pledge Class Walkout would start a trend at other universities.
“We believe there are different ways of attacking a problem, and perhaps this is one of them,” a student said.
DR. GLEN LUKENS, EMERITUS PROFESSOR OF CERAMICS, DIES
Dr. Glen Lukens, 79, emeritus professor of ceramics and internationally renown potter, died Sunday morning in a local hospital. Death was attributed to heart failure.
Dr. Lukens served as a professor of ceramics and head of that section from 1933 to 1952. In 1945, on the request of the national government, he went to Haiti to teach rural populations how to fashion cooking utensils from clay.
He was recognized as the developer of California desert glass and
is also remembered as having revived the Egyptian process of making imitation turquois gems.
Dr Lukens’ work has been displayed across the United States. He was accorded many honors throughout his career, including the Lord and Taylor American Design Award, the National Robi-neau Ceramic Award and the Charles Fergus Binns Award. In 1940 he was awarded an honorary doctor’s degree from Oregon State University.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
by Charles Hirt, will end the program with a variety of Christmas carols from foreign lands.
The Special Events Office decided on the musical format for the Convocation in an attempt to continue presenting programs different from those of the past.
Past programs included such things as Christmas plays by the Drama Department and special readings.
This year’s Christmas Convocation is the first to be shown one night only. Previous Convocations had been presented two nights.
Med School receives gift of $487,200
A gift of $487,200 from the Louis B. Mayer Foundation to construct and equip the Louis B. Mayer Medical Teaching Center for the School of Medicine has been announced by Daniel Mayer Selznick, vice president of the foundation.
The center, which will have a 500-seat auditorium and 20 special teaching rooms, will be a part of the
S2.375.000 complex for medical education on USC's 12-acre medical campus adjacent to Los Angeles County General Hospital.
Dr. Roger Egeberg. dean of the School of Medicine, explained that the Mayer Center will be used for both undergraduate and graduate instruction, and for research and evaluation of medical school curricula and teaching methods.
Equipment for the center will include the latest innovations in programmed instruction and audio-visual communication.
Dr. Egeberg said that the auditorium. for example, would have stethoscopes so that the students could listen to heart sounds of a patient beinsr examined on the stage.
He reported that another feature of the center would be a closed-cir-cuit television system between the center and the County Hospital.
Selznick. grandson of Louis Mayer. the late film pioneer, said of the center: “How thrilled he (Louis Mav-er) would have been to see the wor’ds of medicine and the visual arts coming together for the betterment of man.
“Nothing would have pleased my grandfather more than to see film, television, and audio-visual aids being used to implement the training of the doctor of the future.”
Construction plans for the Mayer Teaching Center call for sliding classroom walls so that teaching areas can be restricted or enlarged to accommodate from 20 to 1(X) students or other group meetings.
Classrooms will also have front-surfaced mirrors enabling faculty in adjoining rooms to evaluate other instructors and their teaching methods.
The USC School of Medicine's Division of Research in Medical Education was established three years ago.
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